Sarah worked on numerous projects to address climate change and encourage adoption of renewable energy, to promote social justice and human rights at home and abroad, to foster community in Cleveland, and to celebrate Philip’s achievements.

Sarah founded Windustrious, an organization that advocates for Cleveland to become the first city in the United States to install an offshore wind farm in fresh water.

Sarah testified before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on behalf of Windustrious in favor of a permit for the Icebreaker Windpower Project on Lake Erie, a project supported by a significant grant from the Department of Energy. Corrupt members of the Ohio Power Siting Board and Republican state officials delayed and blocked the project. However, on February 27, 2025 (Sarah’s birthday), the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the project recently has been revived now that a Maryland company, Mighty Waves Energy, has taken control of Icebreaker Windpower, Inc., along with Cleveland-based firm Nottingham Spirk. Sarah met with fellow activists on the Wind Energy Task Force and county officials shortly before the news was announced.

As another project, Sarah promoted Philip’s poetry. In the 1980’s, Philip wrote a collection of comic verse, often incorporating references to current events, and infused with subtle progressive social commentary. Philip’s rhyming political commentaries became a hit on the weekly program “Signatures” on Cleveland’s local public television station, WVIZ. Philip laughed that his humor was thoroughly repressed in his day job as a professor at CWRU, where his books and papers provide few opportunities for drollery. For example, “A Quantum Approach to Condensed Matter Physics” is really not funny at all. Philip’s poetry was published in “The Sunken Restaurant and Other Verse,” and you can enjoy a selection of his poems here.